#the new dashboard is hideous

[geekmonkeyscience]

No offense to these blogs but... what is this bullshit and why is it littering my dashboard on PC?!

[catasterisms]

no no no why is the stylus extension suddenly not working???

[sweetblood]

that fuckign pirate clown!!! WE HATES IT!!!!!

[rowdycatte]

ok you know what i lied i wanted to REALLY fucking complain

there is SO MUCH wasted space on either side and it makes the dash feel fucking claustrophobic, it’s disgusting and it literally makes my back itch

there was absolutely nothing wrong with the old layout and trying to emulate twitter in ANY way shape or form is laughably stupid, jesus fucking christ WHY would you want to be like THAT it’s like saying “hey, you know that kid that eats worms for attention? i want to be a cheaper imitation of that guy”

god, it’s so gross. and again WHAT is all this dead space is it supposed to fit on a CRT monitor or something? fuck

who seriously thought this was a good idea? this had to go through multiple levels of people who also thought this was a good idea and then to actually implement it. what the fuck, y’all

oh my god i dont look at this site for a while and when i come back my dash is so fucked up looking if i wanted to feel cramped and squished i wouldve stayed on twitter god fucking damn this is awful

looks like i'm not using this bullshit for the forseeable future

[steambat-reblogs]

What the hell is this new dashboard layout tumblr ??? EXPLAIN

It's hideous and it looks like twitter ew please let me go back to the old one please please please

[godbirdart]

first off, i just want to say that i love your art, you are a huge inspiration to me and i love how expressive your characters are! would you have any tips for someone trying to grow a following from their art? specifically within the furry community ideally. im just not sure where to start

i hope youre having a great day!

thank you so much!!

okay i gotta preface this with: i have been doing commissions for over a decade. everything i say here i've been doing since roughly 2014, but my career as an artist didn't really Take Off and become reliable until 2019. success isn't immediate. some artists will grow faster or slower than others, not every tactic is going to apply / work for every artist; and that's okay. just keep pushing yourself and adapting and figuring out what works for You!

i’m putting this under a readmore as it got a bit long. every time someone asks me for advice on professional Anything i always write up a five page essay despite trying to bulletpoint it oof

post on multiple platforms and keep them all updated. i’m putting this one in bold because it is possibly the Most Important thing. we’re all watching twitter sinking over there, and many of my mutuals there were floundering because they hadn’t established themselves on any other social media site. i strongly recommend three or four socials minimum. my main four sites are tumblr, deviantart, twitter and toyhouse. furaffinity is also good. inkblot and artfol are new and i use them frequently as well. if you don’t like posting manually to every site each and every time you post art, Postybirb exists and is what i use to crosspost all my art to most of my socials at once.

avoid venting a lot on main. we all have frustrating days where our art isn’t getting the recognition we hoped, or we’re feeling petty about a controversial topic or the latest drama. it happens! it’s okay! however, many people just don’t like seeing dozens of negative posts on their feed. most people will sympathize, but if your negative vents are constantly clogging their dashboard they’re not gonna stick around.

shamelessly self promote yourself. reblog your own art. retweet it again. repost it. mention your other socials. we live in a world of timezones! when you post art, only a fraction of your audience is going to see it. i recommend reblogging / retweeting one to four individual pieces periodically over the course of a day and change it up each day. you can also repost your own work into photosets and title it “recent commissions” or the something like that.

don’t hide your linktrees and carrds. seriously! the amount of times on twitter i went to try and follow someone on another platform only to find they had no carrd or linktree link,, it is infuriating. put your socials link in your bio or pinned or SOMEWHERE readily at the top of your profile that’s easy to spot.

if you’re offering commissions, make a telegram channel or discord server for your announcements / openings.

post regularly. this one is a lot harder for artists that don’t make a lot of content, but posting even a status update once or twice a day can go a long way - especially if you’re on twitter with that platform’s hideous algorithm. alternatively as i said earlier, just retweet/reblog your work a few times a day and you should be good.

art trends are cool and fun and an easy way to get your work seen by others. see a “draw your sona in this outfit” meme? go, have fun with it. this one’s a bit tricky as timing is everything when it comes to ~trending~ content, so try and draw quick. that said, it’s never outdated to drawover reaction memes with your fursona.

try not to clog your socials with memes and shitposty images. this one is directed at twitter specifically. with twitter moments now gone, your media tab is the last way for people to hope to find your work organically on your profile without having to use the twitter search. they can’t get invested in your work if they can’t find it!

it’s okay to change course if you’re not vibing with where you’re headed. if you want to move onto a new aesthetic - that’s fine! you may lose some followers if they don’t click with your new vibe, but you’ll inevitably gain some new ones.

avoid frequent name changes. so many of the artists i follow have changed their brands / urls over the years that i don’t recognize them anymore.

tag your work properly. on tumblr, the first five tags on the original post are the tags your work will pop up in in the search feature. make those first five tags the Most important ones; example: #furry, #anthro, #art #fursona etc. twitter’s algo seems flip-flop if it likes tags or hates them. if you see a tag trending, repost your art in a photoset with the hashtag in the post [example: if #pokemon is trending, repost some of your pokemon fanart with the hashtag in the post body]. if the tag isn’t trending,,, i’ll be honest it’s a gamble if twitter likes your post or not at that point. i have no advice for that hell algorithm.

hosting raffles or doing a mini art request event [example: “leave a ref and i might draw your oc”] is good for traction while simultaneously giving back to the community + your audience a little!

try and reply to / like comments on your work. it’s not required per se, but it’s good to express gratitude.

engage with other members of the community. comment on other peoples work. like it. retweet it. follow other people. obviously don’t be disingenuous about it, but this is what the professionals call ~networking~

don’t compare yourself to others. this one is one you have got to keep in mind constantly. you’re going to find 17 year olds with huge followings and 30 year olds that are doing professional industry work whose level feels alien and almost out of reach. if you’re not doing as well, don’t let yourself get discouraged. we all gotta start somewhere!

related to the above point: be nice to your followers. venting on main about not having the same audience volume as others can come off as a huge middle finger to the audience you already have.

gaining a following takes time. unless you get a really lucky break, it’s going to take a lot of work and self promotion to build up your brand.

slap your name on everything. i mean it. any art you do - sign it. watermark it. people can and will share art in telegram channels and discord servers, and if the art interests someone they can easily source it back to you if your name is on it.

you can buy adspace. if you’re catering to a furry audience specifically, you can buy adspace on furaffinity pretty easily. inkblot i believe also offers adspace for artists though i haven’t looked too deep into it. this is really a “if you’re okay burning money” situation, as the huge chunkk of internet users have adblockers now and it’s a gamble if people will see or even click on your ad.

just have fun and do your own thing. you can hop on trends and draw art that caters to your audience’s tastes, but don’t forget to draw what YOU want and what YOU’RE about. Draw what makes YOU happy.

hope these help!! ;w;

[boyhood]

Currently finding the new dashboard so unbearably hideous and chaotic that I can’t even use tumblr- Tumblr Savior isn’t catching anything and Xkit hasn’t been updated in 2023- what are you guys using to fix this disaster???

[averylousy]

i'm really glad this new dashboard makes sure to show me the top 5 posts from the past 3 hours of the people i follow. i don't really care if people are saying things. please, completely fail to show posts from people i follow that you deem unsatisfactory Content for me. i'm a baby bird and i need a mommy to vomit crop in my hideous beak.

[adelle-ein]

oh i just had the new desktop dashboard layout inflicted on me. absolutely hideous

[stoportotouch]

oh good, i've been favoured with the hideous new dashboard layout now, have i? how nice for me.

[threepreludes]

tumblr finally forced the new dashboard on me, it's absolutely hideous

[yuritology]

the new dashboard is so hideous this is what they used the money those people spent on stupid badges and crabs and whatever the hell else on. not even twitters layout is this wretched¹

¹ Author has no knowledge of layout of site rebranded to "X" from Twitter and cannot comment on that UI in relation to tumblr

[pharawee]

The new tumblr dashboard layout is hideous. I'm going back to playing Baldur's Gate 3

[autolenaphilia]

Okay, changed from one version of Firefox to another for Linux reasons, and did a new login into tumblr, and now I got the new hideous dashboard look. Don't regret what I did exactly, but nasty surprise nevertheless.

(the linux reasons is that the distro I'm using, Debian deliberately ships the extended support release of Firefox, which is not frequently updated except for security reasons and is multiple version numbers behind the regular version. They do this because Debian in general follows that update schedule, because they focus on system stability. So feature updates don't happen until they have been thoroughly tested for any bugs. This is good, I like this philosophy of debian in general, and Firefox ESR is fine.

But I have installed flatpak capability on my version of debian. Flatpak is an alternative format for software packages for linux, which are more frequently updated than debian's own .deb software packages. And so I installed firefox as a flatpak to get a more up to date version with regular updates. Due to how flatpaks work and handle dependencies, these updates are unlike to cause any major issue on my system, so it's generally safe to install flatpaks, at least from trusted sources like Mozilla. and I'll keep the ESR version of Firefox as a backup.)

[ghostopossumlives]

modern cars suck

i was browsing at the dealerships trying to replace my car today and is there some kind of new law for car manufacturers that no one in a car is allowed to be able to see? The bows on almost every car they have completely blocks the entire road. It's ridiculous.

The bow bends up in front of you, blocking the entire road, and the rest is blocked by the dumbass massive immovable touchscreen poking up a foot over the dashboard .

I want to be able to see like I could in my Honda Fit.

I hate these hideous sarcophagus blobs

[vulpixelates]

first post from the new laptop oh god i forgot how hideous the dashboard is without my extension that fixes it send help